It all started with a few tweets: Bonnie of @MrsStraitsClass mentioned that she read aloud to her kids every day. I teach elementary actually but even if I didn’t, I’d still read aloud every day. I love using accents and fun voices. 🙂 Accents and fun voices?!! I had to know more! I begged her to…
Category: Reading Lists: Middle Grade
Middle grade chapter books for kids ages 9 through 14 and including 3rd grade books, 4th grade books, 5th grade books, 6th grade books, and 7th grade books.
35+ More Books Like Percy Jackson
We might be in the same shoes. My son just finished all the Rick Riordan books which kept us happily reading for the better part of the school year. But now we are adrift, desperately seeking more books like Percy Jackson. Riordan’s books are so exciting, we often stay up past my son’s bedtime for…
Crime Scene for Platypus Police Squad
It was a Friday afternoon. I got wind from Kellie at Walden Pond Publishing that something was going down in Dedham, Massachusetts at Blue Bunny Books. She warned me that similar suspicious activities had been happening there as it is owned by author/illustrator Peter H. Reynolds of Ish and The Dot. Something involving Jarrett Krosoczka…
20 Books About Poland For Kids
Alexandra of familymobileapps.com left me a comment that said, “I love your specific lists! So, I wonder if Poland themed books for kids is too big or too little a challange for you? ” So I thought, “No problem. I’ll research.” But what I found was a striking lack of diversity in Polish themed books for kids: folktales and Holocaust…
Teaching Kids Compassion for Special Needs Classmates
I volunteered in the 5th grade a few weeks ago for a really great program run by volunteer moms called Understanding Our Differences. I believe we purchase a curriculum from a Newton-based non-profit with the same name which was started by a Newton parent with a special needs child. It’s basically sensitivity training for grades…
12 Great New Chapter Books for Kids
I’ve been trying to read more children’s book lately to catch up on my pile so I’ve taken to carting around a small pile of books everywhere I go and reading a little here and a little there until the book draws me in such that I am forced to read to the end. Some…
Top 10 Best Chapter Books Set in Florida’s Past
It could just be me but I find that there is something poetic and Old Hollywood-y about Florida’s past. Perhaps it is just the way old Florida is portrayed in children’s books. The setting also seems like a backdoor shortcut to a Newbery award. From our last trip to Florida in North Captiva Island, we…